As far as I can remember, I guess I have always been taking pictures. My brother put his camera into my hands at his wedding and told me to take some pictures. They knew I enjoyed that. I was 12 then. And I felt important.
The situation in the publishing of literature in Slovakia in the 1980s was, in retrospect, to a large extent determined and perhaps even determinedly constituted by the social and political backgrounds of the period which also formed the writer themselves – the same author of
On the sandy banks of the river Tisa and on the SlovakianHungarian-Ukraine border, known for its orchards and the legendary plum brandy, a small and inconspicuous village of Malé Trakany in Zemlín county became on 29 April 1888 the birthplace of Béla Petrik (Adalbert in
Narodil sa 21.5.1829 v Dubnici nad Váhom v chudobnej slovenskej rodine. Za fotografa sa vyučil u viedenského fotografa Andreasa Grolla. Po vyučení sa z Viedne vrátil do Bratislavy, kde si neskôr i za pomoci svojich priateľov a mecénov otvoril svoj prvý fotografický ateliér, pravdepodobne v roku
Szilvia is a photographer, curator, teacher and chair of the RANDOM – Association of Contemporary Photographers. Based in Budapest, Hungary. She began her photographic career at the Studio of Young Photographers Hungary, where she became a member of the executives for 2 years. She is